Phoebe Wright

Author: Phoebe Wright

I am a musician and musicologist currently studying my MA Music at Bangor University, specialising in music for video games. For my undergraduate degree I wrote a 12,000 word dissertation focusing on the music of various horror games, although my favourite games are those with a limited horror factor. I've been playing video games since I was small and I'm fascinated by the in-depth stories and personal relationships that can be made with characters in video games.

The obvious (and clichéd) answer for this question would be the Adoring Fan from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but I’d put him there at the risk of taking an enormous cop-out. Also I actually find him quite endearing, and not just because we have similar hair.

If you’re also in the position where you love GTA but you’re so angry at the prospect of not having single-player mods for seemingly no other reason than a straw-clutching claim that it allows people to bypass security features, I’ve got the best game for you.

Most of the games I play are pretty well-rated, so this was really hard. I wracked my brains trying to think of one, but I couldn’t. Instead, I’ve gone for something that’s…less than triple-A, let’s put it like that.

As with my last post, there are so many it’s really difficult to pin down. I’m the sort of person that connects with characters, but my tendency towards that is so strong that I usually either feel only basic apathy for characters I’m not connected to and become borderline obsessive about characters I like.

It’s been six years since the release of Bethesda’s multi-award-winning RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and with E3 firmly underway, I am once again in a permanent state of not-getting-my-hopes-up for the sixth game.